Thought I’d share a little creativity that’s been happening the past few days. What happens is that I have lots of little ideas, but no concrete big idea, which is frustrating sometimes. So then I just work on ‘components,’ little bits and pieces of ideas. Like when I said I was sewing my little squares together crooked. Pretty soon I amassed quite a pile of little crooked squares. So then I sewed them together into bigger even more crooked squares. And finally, I was ready to try to make them fit together into one little quilt. Its like putting a puzzle together. Pretty fun, once you get going. I decided to not even up the edges, and just placed it on a background piece as is. Then made a sandwich and started quilting. I only have the borders left to quilt, and then this one will be done.
Close up of the quilting:
Here’s another little experimental top that I’ve had laying around for quite a while. Finally made the quilt sandwich and started quilting. Then I wasn’t sure where to go with it, so it went back up on the design wall to be stared at for a while.
Last night and today I had a lot of fun putting together these little squares of wool felt and buttons. I had this idea way before Christmas, and had the wool already cut into little squares. And of course, I had the buttons. And I even knew WHERE the buttons were.
I already know how I’m going to lay these out on a background fabric and add more embellishments.
Have I ever showed you guys my spinning wheel? It came back in the house shortly before Christmas, but to be honest it hasn’t seen a lot of action. I need to get something more colorful to spin, and then maybe I’ll be motivated.
And finally, a little progress is being made on the sheep rug. I’m working on filling in the grass.
So that’s it for now. I re-subscribed to Netflix, just for the streaming videos. They have vastly improved their streaming ability. I am watching that series that everybody else seems to have discovered, Downton Abbey. And yesterday I watched a pretty interesting documentary–“Fat, Sick, and Almost Dead.” About two extremely overweight guys who both had an autoimmune disorder, and both went on a vegetable and fruit juice fast, and lost a ton of weight and seem to have put their autoimmune disorder into remission. It was pretty impressive. I don’t really want to go on a juice fast, but it did make me want to eat a lot more veggies LOL. Plus, it was just really encouraging to see–to remember what my health was like before I started this, and to think about what bad shape I’d be in now if I hadn’t changed the way I eat and lost some weight.
Another really great thing I watched today was a John Ortberg interview with Louis Zamperini. Louis is the subject of Laura Hildebrand’s (author of Sea Biscuit) newest book, Unbroken. Its quite a tale, and he is still quite a character at 94 years old. He was in the Berlin Olympics, survived 65 days on a life raft in the Pacific, and then became a POW during WWII.
And believe it or not, with all the creativity, and the increased movie watching, I am still keeping my activity level up. I average making it to the gym 3 days a week, and then am walking the hills on the days in between.
Well, I’d better get off to bed. All’s quiet on the western front, and I want to keep it that way!
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